The Mankato free press., 1887-09-23
PRESS OPINION.

i Detroit Free Press. The coarse tend
lency. of many reputable daily journals
from what may be called the common
decency point of view, can not truthful
~ be denied. This tendency has per
haps its most striking exemphfcation in
the poison which is sent broadcast over
the country by the Clara Bellies and
other such abnormal and monstrous
growths that infest modern journal
ISM" It is not squeamishness that cries
out against the nastiness of that class OF
newspaper correspondence; it is the in
dignant protest of decent men and
Women--the appeals of fathers and
mothers whose sons and daughters,
reared to believe in the newspaper, are
IN danger of defilement through con.
tact with the salacious and british de-
tails which comprise the major portion
of the correspondence mentioned.
Des Moines Register: The Democratic
platform declares for free trade, for the
return of the saloon to Iowa, and has a
hypocritical platform betraying the
people in their contest with the rail-
ways. It's ticket is made up of two rail-
way attorneys, one banker, and an adj
mirer of Frank and Jesse James from
Missouri The Republican ticket is
headed by farmer for governor, a pri-
vate soldier in the Union army and one
of the best lawyers in the State for su-
preme Judge, another soldier of approx
ed and useful public record for heuten-
ant-governor, and the leading educator of
Ireland for superintendent of public in
struction. Let all voters compare the
two platforms and the two tickets.
Boston Herald: All honor to those
who are striving in any way to make the
position of working girls more comfort
able, to secure them better wages, bet
ter food, better dress, airier and more
attractive lodgings. But all this talk
about the feminine purity of soul hold
ing Its own against the fascination of
superior bonnets and gowns, tickets to
the theatre and suppers at restaurants,
is absolutely pernicious, and is a CHM
ing in with what is in. reality the most
dangerous and the most seductive jar
gon of this materialized age.
Philadelphia american: Nowhere in
the world is there such another serIes
of large cities as that which, beginning
at Boston, terminates at Washington.
In the line are New York, which includ-
ing Brooklyn and other dependencies,
does not come very far behind Paris in
population; Philadelphia with its mil
hon., Boston and Baltimore with half a
million each, and Providence, Newark
and Washington, small by comparison
with the giants, yet themselves of giant
size.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Governor For
aker, of Ohio, is not easily frightened by
the firing along the Democratic line. He
fought in fourteen battles before he was
nineteen years old, and has been shot at
many times before by the same crowd
that is now hooting at him.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The solemn
pledges, written and oral, made to the
Mugwumps as late as Christmas day,
1884, have all been broken and flung to
the winds; the can't and sham and pre-
tense of being a civil service reformer
are cast aside, and Mr.. Cleveland stands
confessed the chief exponent of the old
partisan barbarism, "To the victors be-
long the spolls," We feel sorry for the
Mugwumps, but they should not have
bestowed their loves lightly; next time
they should take bond of fate against
their betrayal.
Chicago Tribune: The effect of the
bad crop reports seems to be passing
away. The average conclusion is that,
while the corn crop is not to be large,
there will be enough to 60 round in this
country, and the farmers will receive a
partial compensation for the shortage
by higher prices.